SCIRTIDAE Fleming, 1821
(marsh beetles)

SCIRTIDAE (marsh beetles) may be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

SCIRTIDAE (marsh beetles) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Subtaxon Rank Featured
subtaxa
No of
interactions
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references
Genus 2 subtaxa 3 references
Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilySCIRTIDAE (marsh beetles)
SuperfamilySCIRTOIDEA (a superfamily of beetles)
Series Elateriformia (click beetles and relatives)
SuborderPOLYPHAGA (mainly terrestrial beetles)
OrderCOLEOPTERA (beetles)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for SCIRTIDAE (marsh beetles)

Identification Works

Handling & MagnificationAuthorYearTitleSource
Denton, J. 2013 Atlas of VC12 aquatic coleoptera 70pp
Freude, H., Harde, K.W. & Lohse, G.A. (Eds.) 1979 Die Käfer Mitteleuropas. Band 6: Diversicornia Die Käfer Mitteleuropas, Vol 6, 366pp, Goecke & Evers, Krefeld

SCIRTIDAE (marsh beetles) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

General Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Foster, G.N. 2000 A review of the scarce and threatened Coleoptera of Great Britain. Part 3: Aquatic Coleoptera 226pp, Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Peterborough

Acid Mires

Boyce, D. 2004 A review of the invertebrate assemblages of acid mires Research Reports, Report no 592, 109pp, English Nature

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to SCIRTIDAE (marsh beetles):

BioImagesBioImages (www.bioimages.org.uk) has 6 images of SCIRTIDAE (marsh beetles)
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